“…It is currently unknown how mLin-7C localizes at the nectin-based cell ± cell junctions, but the present results indicate that mLin-7C is associated with afadin or ZO-1 indirectly through an unknown molecule in an actin cytoskeleton-independent manner. mLin-7C forms a ternary complex with mLin-2 and mLin-10 (Borg et al, 1998;Butz et al, 1998) and each of these molecules interacts with many other molecules: mLin-7 with PSD-95, type 2 NMDA receptors, BGT-1, Pals, b-catenin, and VAM-1 (Jo et al, 1999;Perego et al, 1999Perego et al, , 2000Kamberov et al, 2000;Tseng et al, 2001); mLin-2 with neurexin, syndecan, protein 4.1, calcium channels, Tbr-1, hDlg, JAM, and rabphilin3A (Hata et al, 1996;Cohen et al, 1998;Hsueh et al, 1998Hsueh et al, , 2000Maximov et al, 1999;Nix et al, 2000;Martinez-Estrada et al, 2001;Zhang et al, 2001); and mLin-10 with amyloid precursor protein, Munc-18, neurexins, and KIF17 (Borg et al, 1996;Okamoto and SuÈ dhof, 1997;Biederer and SuÈ dhof, 2000;Setou et al, 2000). These earlier observations together with the present results suggest that these proteins directly or indirectly binding to mLin-7 are recruited to the nectinbased cell ± cell junctions.…”